!!!Suess, Eduard

b. London (United Kingdom), Aug. 20, 1831, 
d. Vienna, April 26, 1914, geologist and politician; father of Franz 
Eduard  Suess. Studied in Vienna and Prague, 1852-1862 curator of the 
Imperial Cabinet of Minerals in Vienna, from 1857 Professor of Geology 
and Palaeontology at the University of Vienna, 1863 member of the 
Vienna City Council. Supervised the construction of Vienna's first 
water supply pipeline and the regulation of the River Danube. 1870 
became a member of the Landtag of Lower Austria, 1870-1872 member of 
the Lower House of Parliament. Outstanding achievements in the field 
of geology and pioneer of the "crustal uplift theory". 1898-1911 
President of the Austrian  Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

!Publications
Der Boden der Stadt Wien, 1862; Die Entstehung der 
Alpen, 1875; Das Antlitz der Erde, 3 vols., 1883-1909; Erinnerungen, 
1916.

!Literature
C. Diener, E. S. in: Mitteilungen der Geolog. Ges. Wien 7, 
1914; A. Tollmann and E. Kristan-Tollmann (eds.), E. S. - Forscher und 
Politiker, 1981; T. Cernajsek, "... hat durch bed. Leistungen ... das 
Wohl der Gem. maechtig gefoerdert." E. S. und die Entwicklung Wiens 
zur modernen Grossstadt, 1999.



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